World Centric was proud to be a sponsor of the composting operation at this year's High Sierra Music Festival in Quincy, CA, July 5-8.

Our thanks go out to the festival producers and our friends at Clean Vibes for helping to green the 4-day festival by diverting food scraps and compostable products to the Northern Recycling commercial composting facility in Zamora, CA. We'll have the diversion rate available for you in next months newsletter. Check back in August!

World Centric Founder and CEO Aseem Das was just featured in a great article by the UK's Financial Times!

Our products were added to an input batch of mixed solid waste from Yosemite National Park. The 28-day process started with a 7-day high-heat "cook" to kill any pathogens, followed by another 21 days of sustained high temperature and aeration, so the environment inside the compost vessel could achieve ideal composting conditions.

Not all of the waste included in the testing batch was compostable, as this particular load was to be used as alternative daily cover (ADC) at the Mariposa Landfill. Mariposa Compost will often process mixed MSW within their digesters as a way to create ADC, which is cheaper than using expensive dirt that needs to be hauled in from off-site.

We encountered one problem during our testing - the wire cage that we hoped would allow us to find our products within the composting vessels actually ended up preventing some of our products from becoming entirely submerged in the waste. Therefore, the items that were not entirely submerged did not experience ideal composting conditions and the rate of biodegrading was not as fast as some of the other products that were fully submerged. Stay tuned as we will continue to test products as Mariposa!

Wheat Straw Plate

A piece of the handle on this utensil was not submerged - the rest of the utensil composted

Finished Product (ADC)

What's the difference between compostable and biodegradable; commercial composting and backyard composting; Eco-labeling and green-washing? Learn the difference here.